Now we can just cut and paste you now couldnt we? [:-^]
You certainly could, please be my guest. [:)][^]
Regards
ER
OR buy a MAC und do it with three keystrokes! PC people make good humour.
I read in the Feb. Issue of a magazine called “Garden Railways” that said that Marklin and LGBOA had signed a contract for the LGB line in America. Was this a bad report??
Or is everyone just reading between the lines and trying to fuel a fire that doesn’t exist??
Hello,
On the News page of a magazine called Gartenbahn Profi, it was reported - as of Jan 29, 2008 - that the old agreement had expired at end of 2007 and a new one was yet to be signed. Märklin had no comment on details, until such time as an agreement was signed.
Hope that helps
ER
Is that AND at least on PC we get to use a QURTY keyboard
Best we can determine is that this was an interim agreement, related to the LGB product line only, and not a permanent long term agreement, that agreement is yet to be announced and may or may not be in the works, depending on your sources. Its still all very much up in the air.
This Walthers deal seams to more related to N HO and Z Marklin products, as Marklin a has indicated they have no plans to import G to the US for the time being. It will be very interesting to see what happens later this year.
kinda hard to export stuff if it isn’t being made! once the factory/manufacturing facilities are squared away, there should be more supplies, I can’t believe that Marklin won’t get products here eventually. Hopefully PIKO’s new asian manufacturing plant means that they are going to expand and try to take over the lgb void in the market
If they’re so overpriced, how do they manage to stay in business? Hmmmm, maybe that’s why LGB finally had to fold up their tent. Anyway, customers usually vote with their wallets so we’ll see if Walthers will be able to market LBG at MSRP levels, I doubt it.
Walt
[size=14]What a REAL loss for ALL of folks who loved LGB! …
… As Britain’s Foreign Secretary said at the outbreak of WW-I …
… "The Lights Are Going Out ALL Over Europe …
… And They Won’t Be Back On Again In Our Lifetime!"
… or somethin’ approximating that wording …
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Do you mean QWERTY?
I think today we all know what led to LGBs demise [;)]
Walther dropped LGB about 3 or 4 years ago. As of now we still dont even know if this new Marklin deal will eventually include LGB, or if LGBoA will manage to “pull the rabbit out of the hat” and get a long term US distribution agreement. [%-)]
For alot of hobby shops Walthers was there only option for ordering train supplies, they had a virtual monopoly on distribution of almost all major brands in all scales, so the shops just passed on the costs to the customer, but in the last few years the internet has taken off like a brush fire, many more people have begun ordering from outlets who could get there product direct from manufacturers bypassing Walthers, that has hit thier bottom line. Alot of shops have closed because either they couldnt adapt to the internet or they couldnt get around Walthers supply stranglehold, so they have had to fold.
Walther’s discontinued LGB from their line over 7 years ago and even then they did not have an exclusive. There were around half a dozen other distributers at the same time. So Walther’s LGB pricing did not control the market ever.
Udo
I am a LGB club member (charter member and in good standings) and the information on the new clubs cars order forms will be going through LGB of America, I have already sent my order forms to Watt’s Train Shop and they have to send the other part of the order form to LGB of America and then LGBoA will in turn have to contact Marklin on how many cars have been ordered. So I feel Walthers we be dealing in HO, N, and Z scales in the Marklin Family, Also Walthers did not do that well in large scale sales and no new large scale catalogs have been made in a few years… Thanks, Mark Ryan